Tag: Measles

Dr. Anita Zaidi: 5-step plan to save children’s lives

This week Dr. Anita Zaidi was announced as the inaugural Caplow Children’s Prize million-dollar winner on Tuesday, December 10, 2013. Dr. Zaidi’s submitted 5-step plan is titled Saving children’s lives in a Pakistani village through a peri-natal care and primary health promotion intervention package and you can find some information about it here. Dr. Zaidi’s…
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$1 Million World Challenge: 1st Round Highlights!

From January 14th to May 31st, the Children’s Prize asked the world a simple question: how many children’s lives can you save from preventable causes? The best answer will win $1 Million. In this video, we’ve compiled our 1st round highlights. There were 565 proposal submissions from 70 countries around he world. All of these…
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Immunization saves lives around the world

World Immunization Week 2013 is an initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) dedicated to raising public awareness of how immunization saves lives around the world. Every year, millions of children could be spared an unnecessary death from measles, pneumonia, diarrhea, polio, diphtheria, tetanus and other preventable diseases if we could simply get them the…
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